Preference-based interactive multi-document summarisation

Autor: Iryna Gurevych, Christian M. Meyer, Yang Gao
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Information Retrieval Journal. 23:555-585
ISSN: 1573-7659
1386-4564
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-019-09367-8
Popis: Interactive NLP is a promising paradigm to close the gap between automatic NLP systems and the human upper bound. Preference-based interactive learning has been successfully applied, but the existing methods require several thousand interaction rounds even in simulations with perfect user feedback. In this paper, we study preference-based interactive summarisation. To reduce the number of interaction rounds, we propose the Active Preference-based ReInforcement Learning (APRIL) framework. APRIL uses active learning to query the user, preference learning to learn a summary ranking function from the preferences, and neural Reinforcement learning to efficiently search for the (near-)optimal summary. Our results show that users can easily provide reliable preferences over summaries and that APRIL outperforms the state-of-the-art preference-based interactive method in both simulation and real-user experiments.
Databáze: OpenAIRE